The Rest - Apples &
Allergies
ARX0001 - CD/digital - Limited 500
1. Apples & Allergies
2. Walk on Water (Auspicious Beginnings)
The first single from the forth-coming sophomore LP Everyone All At Once. These two tracks from the latest album were recorded again by Dan Achen (City and Colour) at Catharine North Studios in Hamilton. They are both great examples of the tone and feel of the new album which expands on a sound that The Rest have been chasing for the past 5 years. Written in isolation, the songs from Everyone All At Once are the summation of the band's collective will to write songs that emphasize melody, structure, and texture. These songs sound like seven people playing in harmony all at once.
Here is what people have been saying about Apples & Allergies and Walk on Water.
"Apples & Allergies is undoubtedly the most surging, invigorating track I've heard in weeks. Basically, the track builds and builds until the song seems to breath with you, pulsing blood through your veins. Just when you are about to explode, the band takes their foot off the gas and slows down with some twinkling of the ivories, finger picking and lovely strings, before lurching forward again with an epic conclusion." - Herohill
"...a slow-building and serene journey into effervescence
that has me hitting repeat over and over."
-Wolveshawkandkites.com
"The intoxicating smell of freedom, that’s exactly
what Apples & Allergies’ bewitching sonorities conjure up."
- ElectronLibre
"Even though I was a huge fan of their last album, Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour, I definitely didn't give it as much of a listen as it deserved. Based on "Walk On Water (Auspicious Beginnings)", I'm hoping I don't make the same mistake with their next album, Everyone All At Once. It's got all the elements that should've made them a band I loved last time around. Frontman Adam Bentley has some crazy vocals, recalling how Alec Ounsworth sounded back when everyone cared about Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Even more importantly, the band has retained (for this one song, at least) its sense of grandeur. The track may shift around in all sorts of ways, but whatever direction it goes in, it always remembers to bring listeners along for the ride. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come." - iheartmusic
"The Rest’s second album ‘Everyone All
At Once’ was recorded a la Bon Iver in sweet isolation, far away
from concrete and rude shop assistants. The joyous results can be heard on primer
‘Walk On Water’, an assault on the senses that drifts from deep
contemplation to rampaging blasts of sonic experimentalism. Sounds like a nightmare
doesn’t it but in the hands of the Rest there are the sweetest of fruit
hanging from the giant oak of noise. Sit patiently beneath its shadow and let
it reveal itself slowly." - mp3hugger.com